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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Mr.. Lecturer Whitehead.

We spoke in our report of the Roch-
ester meeting of some of Mr.. White
heads errors, Misrepresentation and
wrong conclusions. One of these was
in the matter of buying sewing-ma
chimes. He said that a friend of his
bought one, paying, we believe, S65;
but since the grange had made its infu-
ence felt in trade another machine, eX-
actly like the first, had been bought
through the grange for S1S, thus giving
the idea that the grange, or buying
through the grange, was the reason of
the difference in price. What are the
facts in the case? The machines which
Dere forme rly sold for $50 are now adj
vertised for sale in plenty of state pa
pers at SIS. The patent on them has
run out, which removes all legal pro-
lection and opens the field to any one
to manufacture, and so the machines
are put in at the low price named.
Again, the great profit which seems to
have been made was not all profit. The
introduction of new article is always
expensive, which takes from the profit;
then costly experiments are constantly
being made. When the plant is made,
the article perfected, it can be more
cheaply sold. Then when the protec-
ton of the patent is removed the arti-
Gle is brought down to hard-pan basis.
The same, to degree, is true of scales.
Scales are now sold at So which, so far
as one can see, are identically the same
as those sold before the patent expired
for four times that sum. 1t is such
men and such extravagant talk which
brings the grange into disrepute with
candid, thinking men, because these
men appear as the representatives of
the grange and opponents of its ideas,
which they really are not. We shall in
some future number call attention to
some equally fallacious and mischievous
talk on other topics.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Advice to Mothers.

The first thing which the average
mother does when her child cries is to
feed it. This is one of the most seri-
Gus of mischief-w working habits, and it
is one which, if persisted in, is likely
to prove destructive to the child. Ba-
bies, of course, do cry from hunger,
but Just as often, if not oftener, they
cry from some other cause. Among
the most common causes are collie, and
the pain and discomfort induced byindi-
gestion. 1t ought not to be difficult for
any mother to recognize when her child
is hungry; she must be exceedingly dull
if she cannot do so, and, unless the
child is hungry it ought not to be
necessary to say that food should not
be given it. But, unfortunately, it is
necessary to repeat this injunction over
and over again, and to point out the
dangers of disregarding it, for it is one
of the rocks on which so many mothers
founder. In slightly changed language
an accepted authority says on this sub
ject: 1t stands without saying that the
cry of hunger must be relieved by Civ
ing food, but this is the very worst thing
to do under other circumstances, for it
both breaks up good habits and pro-
duces serious mischief as well. The
pain of collie and the discomfort of in
digestion are chiefly due to the accumu-
lation of gas in the intestines, resulting
from the fermentation of food. Moth
ers soon learn, and unfortunately in
fants, too, that the breast milk tempo
rarily relieves suffering. This it does
in the same way as any warm liquid,
Int 10 81 Hnt lu
adds more material to the already fer
menting contents of the stomach and
intestines, and every nursing is soon
followed by more pain and, between cry
ing and nursing and nursing and cry
ing, the infants life is passed in mis-
cry, if not cut short altogether.
Instead of continuous food the plan for
relief is to decrease the quantity of
food by giving it less often and shorten
ing the time the child is allowed to
nurse, while medicines are employed to
strike to the root Of the evil. Not in
frequently mothers complain that their
children are naturally peevish and
troublesome, always fretty," as many
say, and they sleep but little and cry
much. They assume that the irritable
quality is Unborn, and an essential part
of their composition, and more often do
they fail to recognize it as an evidence
of disease. A troublesome, crying
child cannot be healthy, and mothers
should be assured of this fact and en-
deavor to determine the cause; if they
fail to discover and remove it, then it is
clearly their duty to seek the advice of
physician: In some children the ru-
inous habit of too frequent feeding may
become so fixed that no little trouble
will be met before they can be made
contented with the needed change of
food at longer and regular intervals.
In such cases it will be easy to substi-
tute some simple liquid, such as milk
and water, sugar water, or, what is
generally very acceptable, gum arabic
water.-Dr. Frank, IN Boston Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Hints About Counting.

Select the girl. Agree with the girls
father in politics and the mother in re-
ligion. If you have rival keep an
eye on him; if he is a widower keep
two eyes ON him. Don't swear to the
girl that you have no bad habits. 1t
will be enough for you to say that you
never heard yourself snore in your
sleep. Don't put much sweet stuff on
paper. If you do you will hear it read
in after years, when your wife has
some special purpose in inflicting upon
you the severest punishment known to
married man. Go home at a reasonable
hour in the evening. Don't wait until
the girl has to throw her whole soul into
yawn that she can't cover with both
hands. a little thing like that might
cause GOODNESS at the very beginning
of the game. In cold weather finish
saying goodnight in the house. Don't
stretch it all the way to the front gate,
and thus lay the foundation for future
asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia and
chronic catarrh to help you worry the
girl to death after she has married YOU.
Don't lie about your financial condi-
tons. 1t is very annoying to a bride
who has pictured for herself life of
luxury in your ancestral halls to learn
too late that you expect her to ask a
bald-headed parent who has been uni
formly kind to her to take you in out
of the cold. Don't be too soft. Don't
say, "These little hands shall never
do stroke of work when they are
mine," and "you shall have nothing
to do in our home but to sit all day long
and chirp to the canaries," as if any
sensible woman could be happy fooling
away time in that sort of style, and a
girl has a fine, retentive memory for
soft things and silly promises of court
ship, and occasionally, in after years,
when she is washing the dinner dishes
or patching the west end of your trous-
ers she will remind you of them in
cold, sarcastic tone.-NeW York Nail.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
The Oleemargarine Law.

The Providence OR. ~ Journal says
"When the oleomargarine bill, as it is
generally called, was passed by con-
gress it was expected that the quantity
of butter substitutes manufactured
would be greatly reduced, but an ex-
perience in this locality of over two
months under the new law seems to
have shown that the result has been
directly opposite to that anticipated"
This may be the case in Providence,
but we are assured by dealers in Boston
that such is not the case there. One
dealer informed us that one party who
used to run wagon from the city out
through the country to peddle butter
had now been obliged to give up the
business because of the government
stamp on the package which made it
appear Just what ii was, and shows that
he had bought for oleomargarine and
sold as butter, and that his customers
did not banker overmuch for the poor
mans butter" when it was sold under
its own name and for just what it was.
But for all this, whether the sale in
creases or decreases we do not particu-
larry care. What we do care for is that
people who eat it shall have the power
of choice, and eat it because they pre-
fer, it either from price or quality, and
not have it palmed off on them for
what it is not and at the price of the
genuine article. We remember one
place we often passed in Boston where,
in fine glass showcase, we used to
see nice prints labelled "nice Vermont
BUTTER" with the price marked on it at
more than five cents pound less than
we knew good Vermont butter was
selling for in tubs at the same time.
When last in Boston we went by the
same place and saw the same case and
the same prints, but now it was la
belled, " Butterine and the price was
still lower, as compared with butter
so far proving that the law has brought
down the price of the stuff by compell-
ing its sale for what it really is, and if,
as some of its friends claim, it is the poor
mans butter, it brings his butterine
down nearer his means. Speed the
time when all adulterated food shall be
sold only under its true character and
every consumer know it when he buys.
Then let people take their chances if
they prefer adulterated goods.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
4" Scratches.N

From the excellent "Horse Notes :"
of the American CultivatOr we shall
probably have occasion to make copious
extracts from time to time. Below is a
valuable clipping which is very reason
able: While we doubt if scratches F"
(referring to the disease of the feeD
can be cured by outward applications
alone, being, as we think, trouble of
the blood, the ointment will be valu-
able for outward applications: GA Yer
mont correspondent, who is a practical
horseman and writes with the mercury
thirty-two degrees below zero, sends
the following valuable communication :
Horses are having peculiar form of
epizooty, lunches gathering and sup
purating under the jowls, with fluent
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Vegetables.

Why do not farmers use greater
variety of vegetables for food? City
people, who are obliged to buy them,
use far the most, we are told by those
who pretend to know. On the farm
potatoes are eaten three times a day,
onions once or twice week and cab
bage, turnips and beets when boiled
dinner is served, and that is about the
extent, except the weekly dish of baked
beans. Wick enumerates about twenty
varieties that can be stored in cellar
for winter use, and if we add to those
the canned sorts we ought to have a
good variety of vegetable food. We
need not go on year after year planting
the same sorts when so many new ones
are to be had. The Kohl Rabi is de-
licious vegetable for late summer or
fall use, something like a turnip but
not generally grown. Dandelion greens
are favorite with most people and are
easily grown from seed. Last year we
sent to Peter Chase of Bellows Falls
for the seeds, and have now a nice bed
of roots under the snow. The plants
grow to large size and are well
worth raising. Swiss Chard, Brussels
Sprouts and Sea Kale are all excellent
winter greens. We had some very
nice varieties of beans last year from
our editor, and sweet pumpkins. They
are well worth a trial. One is just
large enough for three or four pies,
very yellow and fine grained inside and
of excellent flavor. They should not
be planted near other vines, or they
will deteriorate in quality. For squashes
give me the old green, hard-shell Hub
bard for winter use and Canada crook
neck for summer. The Turban is
very prolific squash and very good for
pies, but not very dry. The pine
apple is not good for anything here, it
is so late.
The best use one can make of shell
tered corner about the buildings is to
plant grapevine. We have one in
our garden which takes care of itself,
running over stone wall and into a
tree. The grapes are of very sour vari-
ETY., but we had stewed grapes all the fall
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Good Feeding and Good Reasons for II.

l feed about twenty pounds of en-
silage to cow and three quarts of
feed twice per day with hayed rye and
dry corn-fodder. The feed consists of
the following proportion of grains A
pint of cotton-seed, quart each of cob
meal and oats. l use Prindle steamer,
and besides moistening the food heat
the water they drink. | am, however,
doubtful about the profit of steaming
foods. The annual product of my
average COW is not quite three hundred
pounds, but Notwithstanding the fact
that feed cotton-seed and ensilage, l
am making an excellent grade of butter.
| use these articles simply because
there are no other foods at the same
price that will so increase the produc-
ton of butter.-H. W. Vail, at the
Vermont Dairymen's Meeting.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
How to Clean Oil-CIoth.

An oil cloth should never be scrubbed
with brush, but, after being swept,
should be cleaned by washing with a
soft flannel and lukewarm water or
cold tea. On no account use soap or
water that is hot, as either would have
a bad effect on the paint. When the
oil-cloth is dry rub it well with a small
portion of mixture of beeswax,
softened with a minute quantity of
turpentine, using for this purpose
soft furniture polishing brush. The
following is also used to make oil-cloth
look well: Wash it once a month with
skim-mlk and water, equal quantities
of each; rub it once in three months
with boiled linseed oil; put on very
little, rub it well in with a rag and
polish with a piece of old silk.-Farm
and Household.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
TeO True.

A recent number of Our Country
Home well says: Indifference to the
comfort of the animals in these days is
without excuse. Our forefathers did
not have barns and did not have the
means to build them. Nowadays you
will often see farmers who have barns
who are too shiftless or sefshly mean
to give their stock the benefit of them.
Such people are natural grunters. They
complain of bad luck, hard work to
get along that times are hard and
find fault with the minister. Every
body is all wrong, when the truth is
they are suffering nothing more than
a righteous retribution for their own
deeds. On a well-regulated farm, when
cold storm is coming on all of the
stock are housed, and so exposure and
sickness are prevented. Food is saved,
and this pays for all of the trouble.
About the trouble-don't groan. One
man will get up and house all of the
stock on an average farm in one hour"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

for sauce and put up sixteen tumblers
of splendid jelly from them.
We are not very successful with
cucumbers. Have planted the White
Spine and Early Cluster mostly, but
they do not bear well. 1t is good
time now to make selection of seeds
for the garden, before the rush of bust
ness. Perhaps our new editor will give
us talk upon the subject, and good
advice, which will be gratefully re-
ceiyed,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Nice Recipes.
BY sYBIL.

A PRETTY and useful pillow-sham
holder can be made with piece of a
broom-handle three feet in length.
Cover it with red cloth, then with
lowered lace, leaving wide piece of
lace to hang down. Take two yards
of red ribbon, with bow at each end,
and tack it on each end of the roll.
Hang near the bed, and when retiring
there will be no excuse for throwing
the shams in a heap on the floor, even
though the good wife should be ARA.
To make nice rolls, when the bread
is ready for the pans pick out carefully
small handfuls of the raised dough,
dipping it in melted butter and laying
it in the tins close together. Keep it
in warm place half an hour, or until
raised sufficiently, before placing in
the oven. 1t is very little trouble and
they are nice.
CINNAMON ROLLS are made by roll
ing out quantity of raised dough and
spreading on thin layer of butter.
Then sprinkle on layer of sugar and
cinnamon, roll up as for jelly-cake; cut
in small rolls and place in buttered
pans; set to rise until light and bake.
NoODLEs.-Two eggs and enough
flour to make stiff paste; roll thin and
leave on the board an hour. Then roll
closely, and with sharp knife, COM
mencing at one end, cut very finely.
Cook twenty minutes before the soup
is removed from the stove. Noodles
made in this manner, cooked twenty
minutes in boiling water and served
with drawn butter, are very Dutch and
also very palatable.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
advertisements.
Rheumatism

1t Is an established fact that Hoods Sar.
saparilla has proven an invaluable remedy
in many severe cases of rheumatism, effect
ing remarkable cures by its powerful action
in correcting the acidity of the blood, which
is the cause of the disease, and purifying
and enriching the vital fluid.
It Is certainly fair to assume that what
Hoods Sarsaparlla has done for others il
will do for you. Therefore, If you suffer
the pains and aches of rheumatism, give
this potent remedy fair trial.
A Positive Cure.
81 was troubled very much with rheuma-
tism in my hips, ankles, and wrists. l
could hardly walk and was confined to my
bed good deal of the time. Being rec
commended to try Hoods Sarsaparilla, l
took four bottles and am perfectly well.
/ cheerfully recommend Hoods Sarsaparilla
as one of the best blood purifiers in the
world" w. f. WooD, Bloomington, ILL.,
For Twenty Years
/ have been afflicted with rheumatism. Before
1888 found no relief, but grew worse. then
began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, and it did
me more good than all the other medicine l
ever had" II. T. BALLOON, Shirley. Mass.
81 suffered from what the doctors called
muscular rheumatism. l took Hoods Sar-
saparllla and am entirely cured" j. V. A.
PRoUDFooT, letter carrier, Chicago, Ill.
We shall be glad to send, free of charge
to all who may desire, book containing many
additional statements of cures by
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 81 six for S.. Made
only by c. l. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Horses Overfed.

Many farmers overfeed their horses,
and in fact most of them do. They
seem to think a horse must eat all the
time because they will very nearly, if
allowed to do 50. This is all wrong.
A horse should be limited in the
amount of hay or straw given to it, and
the limit should. be graduated by the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Agricultural Reports.

There are yet in the hands of the
former secretary of the Board of Agri-
culture about two hundred copies of
the last report of the board belonging
to towns whose representatives failed
to receive them at the last session. 1t
is understood that these are soon to be
distributed to the towns entitled to
them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

"When we two parted felt that |
had taken cold" said Thomas Takein-
time, and next morning | was hoarse
indeed. But twenty-five-cent bottle
of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup fixed me up.
CONTENTIOUS women are slaves to
headache; but twenty-five cents spent
for bottle of Salvation Oil will restore
harmony in the household.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Gbe Dousebulo.
Written for the Waterman.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

JACOB L. GREENE, President.
JOHN M. TAYLOR, Vice-Presdent.
WILLIAM G. ABBOT, Secretary.
D. H. WELLS, Actuary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
agricultural.
O. M. TINKHAM, Editor,
North Pomfret, VT,

10 whom all communications for the Agricultural and
the Household departments should be addressed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

Ratio of expenses of management to re-
cepts in 1885, BIS per cent.
Policies in force Dec. 81. 1856, 63,027, in
surfing. Sl50,52s922 SO
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

BALANCE NET ASSETS Dec. 81, 1885,. s5i,O7ll89 50
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

SURPLUS by Companys Standard. 600. s5059,lO6 40
SURPLUS by Conn. Standard, 4per cent, 5242,2iS 40
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-20
THE CONTRAST.

How unlike the Christmas season Of
year ago is this, socially and politi-
IlIyl What a wonderful change has
ben wrought in one short year in the
tab community! When one recalls
le year ago, and compares it with the
resent he can scarcely believe his
emory and his senses, so much has
ben accomplished. 80 remarkable is
e revolution that has taken place.
EeIve months ago If he had predicted
&c achievements Of the year, he would
we been laughed at as visionary and
ignorant of human nature,
msu capabilities and human senti-
ents. How many Of our readers can
sarly recall the. condition Of affairs in
is Territory twelve months since7
e factioraI spirit wss more intense
an ever before; hates burned furi-
sly, and bitterness ranked in every
art. One class OF the community was
reatened by the National Congress
tn legislation. the enforcement OF
Mich would have made it next to i'm
$5sible for any member of that class to
iie within the borders of the afflicted
rrlLory. lit, was proposed to
N the community, Its persons
its property, over to handful of
eedy adventures who had cunningly
.nneG the infamous scheme OF
Rnder and spolistion. Men were
emily aud defiently working for the
,cess OF the scheme, and money was
ng freely spsnt to further it. The
edy ones we're so certain of winning
t they even apporIioned the offices
ong themselves and designated
ividuaIs to do the plundering acts
the several departments of gov
ment. The community seemed
Their divided than ever before,
desperation, encouragement, and
Siety were encountered every
ere. All eyes were turned in the
sction Of the capital, where the deed
to be done which would destroy
fh fifty and industrious community,
3 set Utsl back many years in its
gressive march. News from Wash
ton was eagerly devoured, and there
hope or depression according as the
,rmation that came indicated a
prable or disastrous outcome to the
ked plans. December of 1885 was an
ting and never to be forgotten
1:h in Utah.